The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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So hello, hello, and welcome everyone to the January 1st edition of Happy Hour practicing together.

So, yeah, I wanted to invite us to practice with cultivating goodwill, meta, for ourselves and others and the world,

with leaning into our presence and intentionality.

Yeah, for this year.

So that would be the theme of the guided meditation today.

Maybe I'll just leave it at that and introduce more as I lead us.

So with that, let's begin.

Let's settle into our meditation posture, whether you're sitting in a chair,

if you need to move to a position that's more comfortable.

Actually, just take a moment, all of us.

And maybe lean left and right, maybe stretch your arms, maybe leaning forward and backward,

really finding your center of gravity, becoming embodied, really feeling your body before settling,

feeling the body in any way that the body wants to be felt.

Perhaps rotating your wrists, your ankles.

Yeah, this body is alive.

This body is alive in this moment.

And then take your time to settle.

Really take your time to settle into an upright posture if you're sitting.

Not a tight posture, but knowing the back to be straight upright as if you're being pulled

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